Overview:
The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer is responsible to oversee and manage the Waters's suppliers' Quality Assurance with the intent to deliver high quality products and / or services to Waters and Waters' Contract Manufacturers.
Responsibilities:
* Build and sustain long term win-win relationships with Asia suppliers to ensure understanding and fulfilment of Waters' quality and operations' Quality Scorecard indicators
* Coordinate and manage supplier relationship alongside sister plants and contract manufacturers (CM)
* Ensure the effectiveness of Asia suppliers escalation activities to minimize risk to Waters business and operations
* Collaborate with the supplier in failure analysis, root cause analysis and corrective action plans
* Support Operations, Supply Chain and contract manufacturers to resolve supplier technical issues and implement SCAR action effectively
* Act as Waters QA approval for CMs' First Article Inspection buy off and Part Acceptance activities
* Regularly communicate with Operations and Supply Chain to identify improvement opportunities / projects for COPQ, Quality and Productivity
* Plan, manage and execute an effective Asia supplier audits program and supplier process / product change notification (PCN) program
* Participate in internal / external quality audit activities
Qualifications:
* Engineering degree preferably in electro-mechanical, electrical engineering or PCB related field
* Minimum 5 years' experience in a Supplier Quality / Quality Engineering capacity in a manufacturing or CM environment
* Good understanding of PCB manufacturing and test processes
* Working knowledge in ISO 9001 and / or ISO 13485
* QMS Auditor / Lead Auditor experience
* Proven experience in efficient supplier quality management and governance
* Proven experience in managing supplier quality escalation, containment and counter measures
* Ability to travel as required
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